Adopting Anaplan: Comparing Approaches and Best Practices
A planning solution is only as valuable as the way it’s used. When it comes time to choose a user adoption strategy for Anaplan, one essential question arises:
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industry
With Anaplan and Beyond Plans, industrial companies unify their performance management. Anticipate volumes and margins, connect ERP and MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), simulate in real time the impact of prices and rates, and gain greater visibility into your performance.
Why Beyond Plans?
In a sector exposed to price volatility, energy pressure and ESG challenges, Beyond Plans combines industry expertise, the power of Anaplan and on-the-ground adoption to secure your forecasts and accelerate decision-making.
Your challenges, our solutions
The industrial sector must deal with volatile costs, complex supply chains and fragile margins. Beyond Plans and Anaplan deliver a connected model: dynamic P&L, rapid simulations and alignment between Finance and Operations.
Key challenges
Raw material volatility, cost pressure, sustainable transition
Inflation, product mix, multiple sites and ESG standards complicate management. Leadership teams must anticipate volumes and margins while ensuring business continuity and organizational compliance.
Our solutions
Dynamic P&L, multi-variable simulation, agile reporting
With Beyond Plans, industrial companies benefit from a forecast P&L connected to ERP systems (SAP, etc.), multi-variable scenarios, and consolidated reporting. The result: greater visibility, increased responsiveness, and stronger performance management.
Balancing costs and sustainability
Industrial companies must reduce their emissions and control costs in an inflationary environment. Anaplan and Beyond Plans help you connect economic performance with ESG indicators to support informed trade-offs.
Beyond Plans, a proven approach
Beyond Plans acts as a connector between business teams and finance. Our approach: rapid scoping, integration with ERP/MES, agile development, and change management support. Objective: sustainable adoption and reliable performance management.
An industry in transition
The industrial sector—whether heavy industry, manufacturing, or process-based—is undergoing a period of intense transformation. Fluctuations in raw material prices, energy pressure, the ecological transition, and organizational complexity are disrupting traditional models. In this context, planning based on Excel or local tools quickly reaches its limits.
The challenges are numerous: connecting real data from ERP, MES, and sensors to business forecasts; managing margins and costs at a granular level by integrating unit conversions; ensuring continuity during mergers, transfers, or reorganizations; and embedding ESG indicators into planning processes.
Anaplan provides a structuring response. Its cloud platform unifies financial and operational data, automates margin calculations, and enables real-time multi-variable simulations. Management teams gain access to a dynamic P&L, multi-scope reporting, and clear dashboards.
Beyond Plans complements this capability with deep industry expertise: understanding production costs, multi-site allocation, and gross margin management. Our teams deploy using agile methods, rapidly deliver functional MVPs, and ensure adoption through Lemon Learning.
The benefits are tangible: shorter budgeting cycles, more reliable forecasts, stronger collaboration between finance and operations, and the gradual integration of ESG indicators. The example of Holcim France illustrates this value: a living P&L, adjustable in real time, connected to volumes, prices, and margins, and transformed into a true strategic management tool.
Connected planning thus becomes a lever for competitiveness and resilience for industrial companies, strengthening their ability to adapt while ensuring continuity in the face of energy crises, price volatility, and societal expectations.
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